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Sexuality, Relationships, Marriage, and Family Life
2021 Call for Papers
Mary-Beth Yount, Neumann University (PA)
Craig A. Ford, Jr., Saint Norbert College (WI)
This year’s conference theme--The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Re-Examining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications--invites us to think about how theological anthropology and human dignity are connected to discourses about the possible forms that human intimacy and kinship can take, the responsibilities of persons within those relationships, and the responsibilities that society has with respect to these relationships.
To this end, the Sexuality, Relationships, Marriage and Family Life section can analyze critically events in our world that involve the dehumanization of persons precisely as participants within these relationships and kinship networks. Such events include the effects of incarceration and of the prison industrial complex upon families and intimate relationships, violence committed against families in the name of safety and national security, injustices committed against families during the COVID-19 pandemic, the survival of families and intimacies amid changing environmental conditions, and more.
The Sexuality, Relationships, Marriage, and Family Life section warmly invites papers, panel proposals, and as well as workshop proposals in order to shed light on some aspects of these question(s). Preference will be shown to proposals that explicitly engage the conference theme. Potential topics might include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:
Proposals should be 250-500 words in length and include one’s current institutional affiliation and position. Proposals should be emailed to both conveners by January 15, 2021. Scholars will be notified of the status of their proposals by mid-February.